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TIL Diamonds are relatively abundant but their price is high due to artificial supply restrictions

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04BM TIL popular 80s artist Patrick Nagel who did the cover art for Duran Duran’s Rio, died at age 38 of a heart attack after participating in a 15 minute celebrity “aerobathon” to benefit the American Heart Association.
VaD TIL A Japanese man who murdered and ate a Dutch student is free and treated like a celebrity in Japan
nWEeB TIL that there is such thing called "trapped keys" to prevent machines from being switched on automatically while someone is working on them
LYV0 TIL that in 1934 a new housing development in Oxford, UK, was built with walls dividing the rich and the poor. Known as the Cutteslowe Walls, they survived until 1959.
gMbw9 TIL Woody Harrelson's father Charles Harrelson was a professional hitman, and a former inmate of SuperMax prison in Colorado